Get connected

Reading time: 2 mins A few months back Andrew Sullivan wrote: “What was once an occasional musical diversion became a compulsive obsession. Now I have my iTunes in my iMac for my iPod in my iWorld. It’s Narcissus heaven: we’ve finally put the “iâ€? into Me.” In the article he makes a few valid points, and whilst this is…

Waxing

Reading time: 3 mins I read an article on singer/songwriter Jimmy Webb on Saturday, in which he said: “Music, for me, has always been the medicine for some of the unpleasant things that happen in life,” he says. “And when we feel bad, we like to know that someone else understands where we’re at, that it’s not some isolated…

Tipping Scales

Reading time: 2 mins Willpower. Anyone got any to spare? I should check my biorhythms I think as I’m certainly cyclic when it comes to my mood. Not whether I’m in a good or bad mood, but whether I’m in a “get a grip” mood or a “ohh bugger this” mood. That latter is prevalent for the most part…

Attention Deficit.. Thingy

Reading time: 2 mins Stuck. Paused. Diverted. I have a couple of new projects to work on, a couple of projects that are stuck at the “hard bits” (both in theory and in workload) and I’m managing to avoid them all at the moment. Filling my time researching, taking care of other small tasks. I’m partway through “Getting Things…

Materials

Reading time: 2 mins We have a lot of stuff in our house. A lot of stuff we don’t need, don’t use and if we are honest, we never needed in the first place. When we lived down south my salary took a large hike, and despite losing my job at Dr. Solomon’s I managed to receive a nice…

Wade In

Reading time: 4 mins Awful news over at Fuddland although I’m sure that statistically he was one of many that got mugged on Saturday night (on re-reading this sentence, it may sound like I’m belittling what David went through, I’m not). Stick that in your election fever “we’ll have more police on the streets” pipe and smoke it. I’ve…